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Blasted Nobel. It seems improbable that the Kremlin will let Sakharov travel to Oslo. Writers Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were not able to go to Stockholm in 1958 and 1970 to receive their Nobel Prizes for Literature. The peace award to Sakharov was even more objectionable to the Soviet leaders. Sakharov is still the U.S.S.R.'s most famous scientist and a Stalin prizewinner who was decorated three times with the nation's highest civilian award as a Hero of Socialist Labor. Nevertheless, his eloquent critique of Soviet oppression has cut even deeper than the condemnations of Solzhenitsyn...
Shortly after the press conference, Baltimore received the official telegram from Stockholm informing him of the award. The brief message was a mere four lines long...
...about how we have not thanked the United Nations soldiers for serving in what has to be the most unpleasant military duty in the world. Why not consider nominating the United Nations truce force in the Middle East for a collective Nobel Peace Prize at the next ceremonies in Stockholm...
...Nasser and India's Nehru. The 1970s saw a rapid growth in their power and sense of purpose as well as in their tendency to blame the industrialized West for many of the world's problems. The U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, was marred by Third World claims that the rich nations, having gained their wealth by polluting the environment, now wanted to curb pollution and thus keep the nonaligned poor. The 1974 World Population Conference in Bucharest ran into a similar problem. China, which has one of the world...
...rate of 2 million a week. They also forsook their tepid brews by the million, sending the sale of chilled Continental-style beer up by 60%. Hot pants were everywhere to be seen on Rome streets, as were nude bathers on Copenhagen beaches, and topless nymphs in Stockholm parks. Though the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace sweltered stoically in their bearskins, London bobbies resorted to what some considered to be the British equivalent of toplessness -they went tieless. "It's the first time in our history we've allowed them to do this," explained an apologetic London inspector...